Hi everyone, We've got a bit of a problem in the community regarding HaXml. This has been brought up before, but never definitively resolved, and it's causing more and more trouble. Over at the HaXml homepage [1], it is stated that 1.13.3 is the most recent stable version of HaXml. I believe that Malcolm Wallace, HaXml maintainer, has confirmed this. Over at the HaXml hackage page [2], it would appear as if 1.19.4 is the most recent stable version of HaXml. There is no provision made to mark some versions as unstable, and to make 1.13.3 the default version downloaded from Hackage. There are API incompatibilities between 1.13.3 and 1.19.4 that make it impossible for my programs to support both. This is becoming a larger and more fragmenting problem. Arch Linux looked at the Hackage package and bundled up 1.19.4. Debian looked at the HaXml website and bundles 1.13.3. So we have a situation where I can write software that builds easily with one or the other, but not both. We really need a fix for this. Some things we could do would be: 1) Make a policy that Hackage is for the "most stable branch" of software only, and remove the 1.19.x series of HaXml. 2) Malcolm could decide to bless 1.19.x as stable, fixing the instant problem, but this would still leave the problem open for the future. 3) Add support to Hackage for labeling branches, and present the stable versions by default. Thoughts? [1] http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/HaXml/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HaXml